How humans might outlive Earth, the sun…and even the universe

Nuclear war. Runaway climate change. A global pandemic. Today our world faces all manner of existential threats. But scary possibilities like these are nothing compared to what astronomers say lies in store for Earth. Our planet’s ultimate destiny is to be baked, blasted, and eventually disintegrated. There’s nothing we can do to prevent this cataclysm. […]

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Physicist Says Our Universe Could Have Spawned From a Black Hole

According to our best understanding of the Universe, if you travel back in time as far as you can, around 13.8 billion years or so, you’ll eventually reach a singularity– a super-dense, hot, and energetic point, where the laws that govern space-time breakdown. Despite our best attempts, we can’t peer past that singularity to see what […]

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Water might be the weirdest liquid in the universe, and now we know why

Water might seem ubiquitous and ordinary; it covers 71 percent of the Earth’s surface, not to mention being the primary fluid in most living organisms. But when you step back and look at water from the point of view of physics and chemistry, it’s truly an oddball molecule. For one, water has a highly unusual […]

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This Timeline Shows The Entire History of The Universe, And Where It’s Headed

If you’re the type of person who sometimes wakes up at 3am and lies in bed trying to wrap your tiny mind around the achingly vast Universe and where it’s all headed, well, we have something for you (also, same). This incredible (and incredibly long) infographic from 2015 just keeps going and going and going. Which makes sense, because […]

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Professor Stephen Hawking’s final theory: The universe is a hologram

Stephen Hawking has revealed from beyond the grave his final scientific theory – that the universe is a hologram. The cosmologist, who died on March 14, has challenged previous theories of cosmic “inflation” and the “multiverse” in a new paper published in the Journal Of High Energy Physics. Scientists generally believe that for a tiny fraction of a second […]